The phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ is painted on Avenida Paulista | National newspaper

Writing a new story in a country free of racism. That is why thirty artists, cultural producers and volunteers spent the night working on Avenida Paulista. Traffic was closed to them.

“I hope that after this brutal death we can begin to write other chapters for a more just and egalitarian society in this country,” said artist and cultural producer Neto Duarte.

When it dawned, 180 meters from one of the best-known avenues in the country, the basic right to exist was affirmed in one sentence: “Black lives matter.”

“I would very much like people to be sensitized, but mainly our leaders because they are the ones who are before the laws, they are the ones who are facing the possibilities of global social improvements, not a specific social improvement,” said the activist and producer urban Kleber Pagu. .

Throughout the morning, the written phrase was protected from the cars by cones until the paint dried. The protesters gained support for the message written on the asphalt to endure and resonate for a long time.

The protests against the murder of João Alberto were repeated this Saturday (21). There was a demonstration in Santo André, on ABC Paulista, in front of a Carrefour store that was closed due to the incident.

There were also protests in Goiânia, Curitba, Belo Horizonte and Natal, where protesters even closed BR-101.

In Recife, members of the black movement gathered in front of the Carrefour store in the Boa Viagem neighborhood.

On the ground they wrote the phrase “Vidas Negras Importam Vivas”. At the end of the demonstration, a group broke down the doors and some parking equipment. The police were called and one of the protesters was taken to the police station. She was later released.

The activists promise to charge up and keep fighting for change.

“I think common sense of justice is what is on everyone’s heart right now,” said Willian Alexandrino, chief marketing officer.

On Friday (20), the world president of the Carrefour Group, Alexandre Bompard, posted on a social network that “the published images are unbearable.” He asked “the Carrefour Group teams in Brazil for full collaboration with the Justice and the authorities” and said that “Carrefour’s values ​​are not consistent with racism and violence.”

In a note released on Saturday (21), Carrefou do Brasil stated that “November 20, which must be marked by the awareness of the inclusion of black men and women in society, was the saddest in the history of Carrefour” .

The note says that the words will not express their anguish over the brutality, that they will give full support to the family of João Alberto Silveira Freitas and that, regarding him, the Passo d’Areia store in Porto Alegre closed on Friday and will remain closed. . on this saturday. The note also says that all the results of the November 20 sales of the Carrefour stores will be donated to entities linked to the fight for black consciousness and that they opened later this Saturday to reinforce anti-racist training with all employees and contractors.